[ipodopt]

On June 27, 2021, Near posted a suicidal note on Twitter, disclosing the extent of the harassment they had faced from the website Kiwi Farms. Héctor Martín Cantero later announced he had confirmed Near's death with the police. One month later, their death was confirmed by their employer to USA Today.[12] Near was non-binary.[13][14][15][12]

I found this on wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higan_(emulator).

I believe the "he faked his death" theory was started by those same people on Kiwi Farms: https://kiwifarms.net/search/11124242/?q=byuu&o=relevance

[user-the-name]

> I believe the "he faked his death" theory was started by those same people on Kiwi Farms:

It absolutely, 100% is. Kiwifarms is absolutely vile, and will spread any lie that serves their purpose and masks how despicable they are.

Trust absolutely nothing that comes out of Kiwifarms.

[RealityVoid]

Really naive question here, but... what _is_ their purpose? Do they have some sort of binding ideology?

LE: I just... googled them and looked at the wiki. What the fuck? This is just... way worse than I imagined, at first glance. They seem to celebrate their targets commiting suicide and their whole goal is harassing people. In this, i think they are waaay worse than politically motivated harrassers, at least the politically motivated ones want some sort of end result that is, in their twisted view, better than the status quo. Kiwifarmers seem to just want to destroy people. What the fuck.

[user-the-name]

It is absolutely sick. And they build up these huge elaborate structures of lies to convince themselves that actually, they are the good guys and whoever they are going after deserves it. They don't care at all about truth when doing this, they will just latch onto anything and twist it to justify what they are doing.

It's basically a shared mental illness enabled through the internet. Absolutely terrifying.